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Originally Posted by JD
If you're charged, you lose it for 3 months whether you're found guilty or not. If you plead guilty at court, this three months can be used towards your sentence. First time offenders convicted in court are given a year suspension. In most cases, the 9 latter months can be done by driving with an interlock device on your car.
You'll see that the police hand out a lot of those 24 hour suspensions. In those cases no further action is taken. The person can go pick up their license from the police station once the 24 hour period is complete.
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Actually the automatic 3 month suspension cannot be used towards your sentence unless you plead guilty before the automatic suspension is over.
"Drivers charged with impaired driving in Alberta may receive a temporary driving permit valid for 21 days. Following the expiry of this permit, the province of Alberta will impose an automatic 3 month driving suspension, to commence regardless of whether the charge results in a conviction. A conviction for impaired driving will result in a further and separate minimum 12 month driving prohibition, therefore the province's automatic licence suspension may encourage those charged with impaired driving to deal with their court matters in a timely fashion rather than delaying the proceedings in the courts over a longer period of time (with an early guilty plea the 3 month automatic administrative suspension can overlap concurrently with the 12 month suspension resulting in a total suspension of 12 months, but if a guilty plea is delayed or the matter is unsuccessful at trial the driver could suffer a minimum of 15 months of suspension - the automatic 3 month suspension served separately prior to the additional minimum 12 month suspension imposed on conviction)."
http://www.calgarycriminallawyer.com...edDriving.html